Stand Up, Al AS Drama Portfolio
Inspiration, Aims and Techniques
I feel the aim of this piece of drama is to entertain the audience
whilst at the same time making them think. I want the piece, when
finished to leave the audience thinking about parts of it, whilst not
understanding it all so they continue to question things about the
piece to themselves. Specifically i want them to feel sympathy and a
warmth towards our main character Al. This will lead to them enjoy the
performance more as they will be relating to him as a person and not
just as an actor. The would feel sympathy as Al is bullied,shouted at
and as he is embarrassing himself.
The inspirations i have chosen for this piece are audience
interaction, for which i got from the play 'The Bacchae' which i saw
at with my drama group earlier this year. In that play the actors
talked,sat and in general interacted with the audience. It is my
ambition to implement this into one of my scenes for my own piece. The
other inspiration i want to use is dual story lines, where we act out
two Story lines to the audience without telling them when we are in
one storyline or the other. I got the idea for this from the film
Donnie Darko, where everything you see is not what is happening but
what is in someone's head. These inspirations hopefully will help me
to achieve my aims firstly by connecting with the audience directly
through the participation it brings them right into the play and makes
them much more emotionally involved than they would be just watching a
piece of drama. Secondly by confusing the audience that may not seem
usual but in this piece we felt it would help to make them think about
the piece of drama by splitting the drama into dual storyline it makes
the audience pay complete attention to try and understand what is
going on in the piece. These two aspects together should succeed in
capturing the audiences attention for the full duration of the play as
well as involving them emotionally with the characters.
We will be using different styles and techniques throughout the
performance. The first of these is realism, we would use this to show
an actual event that is happening and portray it to the audience,
although for the event could just be in someone's head for example.
For example to show drunkenness i would stagger around the stage with
my eyes-half clo...
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...very pleased to get the laughs at
some of the places we did but at others it was not supposed to be
funny, for future reference i will remember this and make sure we do
something more clear to defiantly change the feeling in the audience.
The audience participation worked very well as it kept them alert at
all times and meant they were watching something a bit different to
what they were used to.
I think we fulfilled our aims that we set out to do in the beginning
as it defiantly left the audience wondering as many of them after the
show asked me what was in the box. And i can receive as well from the
laughter throughout the piece that our other aim of getting them to
sympathise with Al was successful as well, they wouldn't laugh at
someone they didn't relate to and feel a certain warmth towards.
From this project i have realised that you do need a varied group of
actors as each can bring in their own certain skills and make a
successful piece of theatre, you also need to approach it with an open
mind and be willing to try things you might not at first like the
sound of. The best thing to do is try because if you don't try things
you will never get anywhere.
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